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«Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading»
Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
distinguish, population, produced, unable
«A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''»
Author: Marquis De Custine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
acquit, acquits, acquitted, deputies, deputy, done with, engender, Engendered, officials, population, precaution, precautions, precision, rigorous, sub, superfluous
«It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years»
«A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.»
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
| Keywords:
absorbing, against the rules, battling, consuming, debilitates, debilitating, exhausted, fulfilled, hugely, population, regimentation, vulnerable
«A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
abundant, countryside, crops, farm, landowner, numerous, population, prosperous, rewards, spreading, wealthy, well-being
«Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.»
Author: Chris Rock
| About:
African American,
Sports
| Keywords:
basketball, black people, dominate, heated, hockey, in the United States, population, rink, shit, sports, Take That, tennis
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amount, another planet, at odds, average, deranged, deranging, divided, divided by, divided up, finite, Finite number, follows, from time to time, From Zero, however, infinite, infinite number, Infinities, infinity, inhabited, inhabits, known, near, number, odds, one of them, our planet, planets, population, populations, products, space, The Planets, the universe, whole number, worlds, zero, zeros
«Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
| Keywords:
completed, compute, computing, incubation, manifestations, population, poultry, totality
«If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
burned, likes, painting, percent, population, populations, ten, ten percent
«If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
American state, imbecility, population, the United States, United States
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